This bug has reportedly existed since 2015 but Google learnt about it only in March this year. Google didn’t inform Google+ users about this since it wasn’t legally required. Google also claims that it did not find any user data being misused.

To cover up this security lapse, Google claims that Google+ has “low usage and engagement”. It says that about 90 per cent of Google+ user sessions last less than five seconds, and therefore the social networking platform isn’t a feasible business model anymore.

That said, the corporate version of Google+ will live on post August 2019. Google announced that new features will be rolled out for Google+ corporate edition in order to make it a “secure corporate social network”.